Friday, 24 June 2016

Healthy & Homemade Spicy Cajun Chilli Turkey Burgers

Here’s another amazing food recipe that I
have for you all. After seeing countless amount of turkey burgers being sold in
butchers across Ireland, especially the beautiful creations that Kerrigans Foods for Fitness are starting to produce and sell. Their burgers are being raved about all over
Instagram by various food and fitness bloggers. A few weeks ago
I began to experiment with different flavours and ingredients, but first I had
to make sure that I was buying the highest quality of turkey mince while still
being affordable. I started to ask multiple butchers in my area about what they
have to offer and the prices that they charge. I purchased the turkey mince from CL Meats and all the vegetables and chilli from Lidl.

I have made an abundance of turkey burgers
in a variety of flavours. But being the spice lover that I am, the first
turkey burgers that I created were ‘Spicy Cajun Chilli Turkey Burgers’. What I
love about making everything from scratch is the ability to experiment with
different flavours and ingredients and of course, the ability to adapt a recipe to meet your
dietary needs and your taste preferences. I am all for the spice and chilli
kick so feel free to use as much or as little as you like. As you will see from
the ingredients below I didn’t use any egg or 'binding' ingredient as I feel as though
once they are chilled/frozen they hold their shape perfectly.

Ingredients

500g
Turkey Mince

½
White Onion

½
Red Onion

2 Small Red Chilli’s(deseeded)

1
tbsp of Paprika

1-2 tbsp of Cajun Spice

1 heaped tsp of Garlic Powder

Method

1.Begin by laying out all the ingredients on your table and putting all the mince in a medium sized mixing
bowl. Chop up the white onion, red onion and of course those glorious red chilli’s
into very small pieces.

2.Once all those are chopped you can then add it to the mince. Next, add your spices. Mine consisted of paprika, cajun spice and garlic powder. I would always add fresh garlic but at the time
I didn't have any on hand so the garlic powder is a great alternative.

3.Once you have all your
ingredients in your mixing bowl all you have to do now is mix it all together, make sure you have everything mixed well. This starts the process of enhancing and marrying all the flavours together.

4.Scoop out a rough amount of
the mixture and mould them into medium sized turkey burgers, I always just wrap
them up in tinfoil. I usually keep 2 in the fridge and the rest in the freezer.
I usually get 4/5 burgers depending on whether I go for a medium sized or a
generous medium sized.

This mixture freezes brilliantly well and they taste exactly the same as the turkey burgers you cook fresh. I throw them straight
into the oven still in the tinfoil wrapping and cook them at 180C for around 20
minutes until lightly brown. Having them in the tinfoil keeps them moist and juicy and doesn't dry them out.

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CHELSEA O'CONNOR

Rouxella Beauty. I blog about all things beauty and fashion related, I have recently ventured out into the area of lifestyle in relation to healthy recipe ideas and blogpost motivating reader's, I am looking forward to sharing ideas and things that I have found to help me on my healthy lifestyle journey.